The president for research at #SpringerNature defends transformative agreements (aka #ReadAndPublish agreements) without confronting any of the serious objections to them.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/transformative-agreements-are-now-key-open-access

For some of the serious objections to them, see e.g. the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary statement, esp Recommendation 4 ("move away from read-and-publish agreements"). Disclosure: I helped write these objections.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Two Swedish librarians: "We have noticed a shift in researchers’ questions from ‘which journal is the best for my article to get published in’ to ‘where could I publish my article without having to pay an APC?’."
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.612

In context: This is not about researchers looking for no-APC (#diamond) OA journals. It's about researchers looking for journals covered by an existing "transformative" or #ReadAndPublish agreement.

#APCs, #Sweden

Update. Note that a year ago this month the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations came to the same conclusions on #APCs and #ReadAndPublish agreements. (See the final two recommendations.)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

#BOAI #BOAI20

Conclusions from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (#OASPA) workshop on #equity:
https://oaspa.org/report-from-equity-in-open-access-workshop-1/

"One consensus view that emerged from the conversations was that #APCs…are a barrier to participation in OA publishing for authors in every region…The APC model, and publisher deals that rely on APC-based computation [like #ReadAndPublish agreements] are therefore in danger of reinforcing a pattern of exclusive participation in open access."

#OpenAccess #Publishers

Update. The statement is now on the #HarvardLibrary website.
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-03/iplc-letter-office-science-technology-policy

Another excerpt: "We want to highlight the dangers of allowing the interests of commercial #publishers to dictate the paths available to [#OpenAccess]…We refer here to the…#APC (article processing charge)…and/or institutional #ReadAndPublish agreements where libraries pay bulk APCs on behalf of their scholars and unlock institutional access to read pay-walled content."

RT @Co_Biologists
Researchers at University of Alberta @UAlberta #UAlberta now benefit from uncapped, APC-free #openaccess publishing in all our journals, plus unlimited access to the journals & their archives, thanks to new #ReadAndPublish #OA agreement.
https://bit.ly/3rOQbsf

« Pas de licence R&P avec l’éditeur Oxford University Press en 2022 » à l'Université de Genève.

https://www.unige.ch/biblio/fr/actus/pas-de-licence-rp-oup

#open-access #readAndPublish